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MUMBAI: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in collaboration with Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta is beginning a systematic multiple centre study on genotype varieties of Norovirus, an agent causing gastroenteritis in humans. The study will be on the same lines as that of ICMR-CDC study on Rotavirus, another diarrhoea causing agent. Initially, the hospital based study of Norovirus genotype will be carried out for a...

NEW DELHI: After indicting a US NGO 'PATH' for conducting clinical trails of HPV vaccines in India "in violation of law and ethical norms", a parliamentary panel has been critical on the role of ICMR and has sought stream lining of the system to ensure such things are not repeated. The parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare, in its report tabled in Parliament today, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) should have been careful in...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has initiated a multi-disciplinary study in Delhi and the National Capital Region to find out adverse effects of radio frequency radiation (RFR) emitted from cell phone on population, the government today said. "The ICMR has initiated a multi-disciplinary cohort study in Delhi and National Capital Region to find out adverse effects of RFR, if any, emitted from cell phone on adult population. "Under this...

NEW DELHI: After indicting a US NGO 'PATH' for conducting clinical trails of HPV vaccines in India "in violation of law and ethical norms", a parliamentary panel has been critical on the role of ICMR and has sought stream lining of the system to ensure such things are not repeated. The parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare, in its report tabled in Parliament today, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) should have been careful ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today directed the Centre's competent authority to place before it the file relating to licences given for the administration of two vaccines for cervical cancer prevention. The apex court also directed the Centre to place before it the report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare which has dealt with the issue of drugs relating to HPV vaccine for prevention of cervical cancer. A bench comprising...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has initiated a multi-disciplinary study in Delhi and the National Capital Region to find out adverse effects of radio frequency radiation (RFR) emitted from cell phone on population, the government today said. "The ICMR has initiated a multi-disciplinary cohort study in Delhi and National Capital Region to find out adverse effects of RFR, if any, emitted from cell phone on adult population. "Under this...

MUMBAI: India's first international sperm bank will be set up in the city but will not be exporting frozen sperms. "The Cryos International India will offer its expertise adhering to European, USFDA and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines in donor semen, patient deposits and other semen related clinical products at its state-of-the-art facility in suburban Mulund," its Managing Director, Dilip Patil told reporters here on Monday. ...

NEW DELHI: The government is increasingly getting conscious about the health of people. After launching a campaign against tobacco, the health ministry is now considering to ascertain the illeffects of carbonated water or soft-drinks. The ministry has asked the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to undertake a "controlled study" to assess effect of consumption of carbonated water on health. "ICMR is currently examining the feasibility of carrying out such a study," minister...

NEW DELHI: Regulation of medical biotech products has become an area of strife within the government, with the department of biotechnology and the health ministry virtually vying with each other to seize control. While confusion reigns due to the scuffle, the pharma industry wants the government to institute a single-entry, smart, effective regulatory system for biotech and genomic research, based on the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India model....

NEW DELHI: The world's largest study to look at how mobile phone use affects human health has finally taken off in India. Almost three years after India ? home to over 350 million mobile phone users ? expressed interest to study effects of radio frequency radiation (RFR) from mobile phones or mobile towers, the Indian Council of Medical Research sanctioned around Rs 3 crore for the study early this month. Last week, ICMR which is spearheaded...

HYDERABAD: Lack of legislation and awareness coupled with quality and ethical Issues has been deterrent to the growth of stem cell therapy sector in India, where the bio-tech market is expected to achieve a market size of $ 8 billion by 2015, according to a report by the Yes bank . Special provisions such as 10-year tax benefits, duty exemptions, fast tracking the approval process by giving it a status of orphan drug (as done in...

NEW DELHI: In the absence of any law to deal with biomedical and health research, government has decided to regulate all such activities in medical colleges, universities, hospitals and public and private organisations. The Ministry of Health has proposed the Biomedical and Health Research Bill to ensure ethical research in all institutions with proper care and compensation policy for human participants in such task. The proposed law will ensure compulsory registration and...

NEW DELHI: The US based non profit agency PATH violated all laws and regulations laid down for clinical trials in this country while conducting HPV vaccines trials in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, a parliamentary standing committee on health said on Friday. " its (PATH's) sole aim has been to promote the commercial interests of HPV vaccine manufacturers who would have reaped windfall profits had PATH been successful in getting the HPV vaccine in the...

HYDERABAD: Lack of legislation and awareness coupled with quality and ethical Issues has been deterrent to the growth of stem cell therapy sector in India, where the bio-tech market is expected to achieve a market size of $ 8 billion by 2015, according to a report by the Yes bank . Special provisions such as 10-year tax benefits, duty exemptions, fast tracking the approval process by giving it a status of orphan drug (as done in...

NEW DELHI: Health Research today got a hike of 96 per cent in budgetary allocations with Rs 30 crore out of the department's total outlay of Rs 660 crore earmarked for developing tools for prevention and managenment of epidemics. Research on matters related to epidemics, natural calamities and development of tools to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases has been given more priority this year as the budget for 2011-2012 for it was only Rs 15.26...

NEW DELHI: Even as an all-party delegation from Kerala meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Friday to press for the imposition of a ban on the use of endosulfan, the Centre has stuck to its position that a precipitate action on the issue would adversely affect the average Indian farmer and overall agricultural productivity . Endosulfan is a broad spectrum insecticide used in India and several other countries for controlling...

NEW DELHI: Regulation of medical biotech products has become an area of strife within the government, with the department of biotechnology (DBT) and the health ministry virtually vying to seize control. While confu-sion reigns due to the scuffle, pharma industry majors want the government to soon institute a single-entry, smart, effective regulatory system for biotech and genomic research, based on the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) model. Currently, two moves are...

NEW DELHI: Drug prices are the lowest in India, right? Wrong, if you go by how many hours of work you have to put in to buy the selfsame drug. The Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMS) has done a study which estimates that, on this basis, even a common drug like paracetamol is six times more expensive in India than in the US. The research being conducted by MIMS for a project financed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

NEW DELHI: The world's largest study to look at how mobile phone use affects human health has finally taken off in India. Almost three years after India ? home to over 350 million mobile phone users ? expressed interest to study effects of radio frequency radiation (RFR) from mobile phones or mobile towers, the Indian Council of Medical Research sanctioned around Rs 3 crore for the study early this month. Last week, ICMR which is spearheaded the five-year study...

MUMBAI: The pro-embryonic stem cell policy of the US President Barack Obama is likely to result in Indian research organisations attracting the interest of foreign research firms for collaboration in the field, according to people involved in such research. "India is a cheaper alternative for research and clinical trials. The country is not too far behind the US in terms of practical aspects of stem cells. Many companies are eyeing India because of its...